The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-02-17

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after shot from his own pistol the emperor
found out that it was just what it pretended
to be-a good coat of mail Then the man
received large reward. 1 bless God that
the same coat of mail that struck back the
weapons of temptation from the heart OF
Christ we may all now wear; for Jesus comes
and SAYS: II have been tempted, and l know
what it is to be tempted. Take this robe that
defended me and wear it for yourselves. l
will see you through all trials and L will see
you through all temptations"
"But," says Satan still further to Jesus"
"come and l will show you something worth
looking at" and after a half days journey
they came to Jerusalem and to the top of the
temple Just as one might go up in the
tower of Antwerp and look off upon Bel
gium, so Satan brought Christ to the top of
the temple. Some people at a great height
feel dizzy, and have strange disposition to
jump: SO Satan comes to Christ with pow
erful temptation in that very crisis. Stand
ing there at the top of the temple they look
off. A magnificent reach of country. Grain
fields, vineyards, olive groves, forests
focks on the hills, and villages and
cities and realms. "Now," says Sa-
tan, "Ill make a bargain. Just jump
off. I know it is great way from the top
of the temple to the valley, but if you are
divine you can fly Jump of. Itwon't hurt
you Angels will catch you. Your Father
win hold you. Besides, I'll make you large
present, if you will. I'll give you Asia Minor,
I'll give you India, I'll give you China, I'll
give you Ethiopia, FL give you Italy, I'll
give you Spain, I'll give you Germany, I'll
give you Britain, I'll give you all the world"
What humiliation it must have been.
Go tomorrow morning and get in an alter
cation with some wretch crawling up from a
gin cellar in the Fourth ward, New York.
NO." you say, 81 would not bemean myself
by getting into such a contest" Then think
of what the King of heaven and earth en-
dured when he came down and fought that
great wretch of hell, and fought him in the
wilderness and on the top of the temple. But
l bless God that in that triumph over tempta-
ton Christ gives us the assurance that we also
shall triumph. Having himself been tempted,
he is able to succor all those who are tempted.
In a violent storm at sea the mate told
boy-for the rigging had become entangled
in the mast-to go up and right it. 4 gentle
man standing on the deck said Don't send
that boy up; he will be dashed to death" The
mate said: 81 know what l am about" The
boy raised his hat in recognition of the order,
and then rose, hand over hand. and went to
work; and as he swung in the storm the pas
sengers wrung their hands and expected to
see him fall. The work DONE he came
down in safety, and Christian man said to
him: why did you go down in the fore
castle before you went up?" "Ah," said the
boy, II went down to pray. My mother
always taught me before I undertook any
thing great to pray" .What is that you
have in your vest?" said the man. 20. that
is the New Testament" he said, II thought
would carry it with me if I really did go
overheard" How well that boy was pro-
tectedi care not how great the height or
how vast the depth, with Christ within u.s.
and Christ beneath u.s. and Christ above u.s.
and Christ all around us, nothing shall befall
lis in the way of harm. Christ Himself,
having been in the tempest, will deliver all
those who put their trust in Him. Blessed be
His glorious name forever.
The third installment paid for our redemp-
ton was the Saviour's sham trial 1 call it
sham trial-taere has never been any thing
so indecent or unfair in the Tombs court of
New York as was witnessed at the trial of
Christ Why, they hustled Him into the
court room at Q o'clock in the morning. They
gave Him no time for counsel. They gave
Him no opportunity for subpenaing wit
around through the midnight, of course they
saw the arrest and went into the court room
| But Jesus friends were sober men, were re-
| spectacle men, and at that hour, 2 o'clock in
the morning, of course they were at home
asleep. Consequently Christ entered the
court room with the ruffians.
| Oh, look at Him! No one to speak word
for Him. lift the lantern until 1 can look
into His face, and as my heart beats in sym
| pathy for this. the best friend the world
ever had, Himself now utterly friendless, an
| officer of the court room comes upand smites
| Him in the mouth, and | see the blood steal
ing from gum and lip. Oh, it was farce Of
trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and
then the Judge rises for the sentence! 1t is
against the law to give sentence unless there
has been an adjournment of the court be-
tween condemnation and sentence; but what
! cares this judge for the lava "The
man has no friends-let him die" says
the judge, and the rufIians outside the
rail cry: "Ahal ahal that's what we
wantr-His blood. Hand him out here to us
Away with hiinl away with hinll Oh, 1 bless
God that amid all the injustice that may be
inflicted upon us in this world we have di-
| vine sympathizer. The world cannot lie
| about you nor abuse you as much as they did
! Christ, and Jesus stands to-day in every
court room, in every home, in every store,
| and says: 'Couragel By all my hours of
maltreatment and abuse, l will protect those
who are trampled on.n And when Christ
forgets that 2 o'clock morning scene, and the
stroke of the rufiian on the mouth, and the
howling of the unwashed crowd, then He will
forget you and me in the injustices of life
that may be inflicted upon us.
Some of you want deliverance from your
troubles. God knows you have enough of
them. Physical troubles, domestic troubles,
spiritual troubles, financial troubles. You
have been gathering them up, some perhaps
| for five, or six, or seven years, and you have
| them divided into two classes-those you can
| talk about and those you cannot talk about;
ard as those griefs are the most grinding and
depressing which you cannot mention, you get
coincidence for the things you can speak of,
while you get no coincidence for the things
that you cannot. In your school days you
learned how to bound the states and could
tell what rivers and lakes and mountains ran
through them. If you were asked to-day
to bound your worldly estate you would
say it is bounded on the north by trouble, and
on the south by trouble and ON the east by
trouble, and on the west by trouble, while
rivers Of tears and lakes of woe and noun
tains of disaster run through it. What are
you going to do with your troubles? Why
do you not go to the theatre and have your
mind absorbed in some tragedy. "Oh," you
say, 'everything have seen on the boards OF
the stage is tame compared with the tragedy
of my own life!" Well, then, why do you
not go to your trunks and closets and gather
up all the mementoes of your departed friends
and put them out of sight, and take down
their pictures from the wall and put
in the frame q harvest scene or some
bright and gay spectaclea "Ah," you say
''if l should remove all these mementoes Of
my departed friends, that would not take
away the killing pictures that are hanging il
the gallery of my own heart" Wen, if that
does not help you, why do you not plunge
into society and try to wash off in worldly
gayeties all these assoilments of the soul
"Oh," you say, Il have tried thatl but how
can hear other children laugh when my
children are silent! How can I see othel
happy families when my ON happy family